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Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:40 am EST

Video: Clutch threes, sweet dimes and dunks

By J.E. Skeets

Highlights from Wednesday night's NBA action ...

My No. 1 play: Jameer Nelson's(notes) deliberate off-the-backboard alley-oop pass to Dwight Howard(notes). Why? Because that pass is the future. To quote my main man Shoals: "If you accept the alley-oop as more like the pick-and-roll than the windmill, all sorts of perceptual doors begin to loosen. Remember McGrady's off-the-backboard self-oop? Why not use the backboard as a second floor, thus adding another (fourth?) dimension to the game. It sounds fancy and frivolous, but again, we're talking set plays ..." Believe that.

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  1. Fighting Maroon
    1. Posted by Fighting Maroon Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:57 am EST

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    Boomz.
  2. C
    2. Posted by C Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:13 am EST

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    Did Jameer get an assist for that?
  3. jonomike13
    3. Posted by jonomike13 Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:19 am EST

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    Immediately made me think of this play:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8z3bymtYyc&feature=related
    "If he had finished that we'd be watching that forever"
  4. sammyzaba
    4. Posted by sammyzaba Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:23 am EST

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    ok #1 is a joke on that video. jameer/dwight's play was more entertaining by a longshot. melo's was too.
  5. SB 13
    5. Posted by SB 13 Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:50 am EST

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    Montaaaaa
  6. Lew Ghost
    6. Posted by Lew Ghost Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:31 pm EST

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    I've been saying that players should be using the backboard for years, why has no one figured it out yet???
  7. oLLie BoomBayay
    7. Posted by oLLie BoomBayay Thu Nov 05, 2009 1:57 pm EST

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    STFU with your future sex Magic "believe that" pass from Jameer. Point guards have been chucking up floaters to the tallest player on the floor for years. I've seen plays like this with Shaq for over a decade. You could almost say he invented it because players would pass to Shaq and instead of coming down with it, he just dunks it. When you have a behemoth on the floor you are afforded that luxury. Jameer only used the backboard because of the hand in his face. I actually saw that as a bad shot that Jameer knew Howard would clean up.
  8. DesmondM
    8. Posted by DesmondM Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:45 pm EST

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    jason kidd's been throwin alleys off the backboard for a minute now,, kinda late bro
  9. bobbyw
    9. Posted by bobbyw Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:47 pm EST

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    Don't forget mr. Crawford and Atlanta hawks. They're playing good ball right now.
  10. Jonathan C
    10. Posted by Jonathan C Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:58 pm EST

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    Jordan dished it off the glass to Pippen in the '92 Olympics.
  11. yAnz
    11. Posted by yAnz Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:48 pm EST

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    jack's pass is so sick! :)
  12. Charles M
    12. Posted by Charles M Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:49 pm EST

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    eh, pretty lame #1 play

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